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Disordered, Quasicrystalline and Crystalline Phases of Densely Packed Tetrahedra
Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron S. Keys +4
All hard, convex shapes are conjectured by Ulam to pack more densely than spheres, which have a maximum packing fraction of ϕ = π/\sqrt18 ~ 0.7405. For many shapes, simple lattice…
Cascading of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Photomechanical Optical Devices
Nathan J. Dawson, Mark G. Kuzyk, Jeremy Neal +2
Photomechanical actuation is demonstrated in two coupled liquid crystal elastomer photomechanical optical devices (PODs) acting in series. The response function of an individual PO…
Modeling and Simulation of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Wei Zhu, Michael Shelley, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
We consider a continuum model describing the dynamic behavior of nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and implement a numerical scheme to solve the governing equations. In the…